The City - (December 17,1996)(Partial)

The City - (December 18,1996)(Partial)

Trying to watch some of Jean's interview...I don't try to go out of my way to criticize Locher, but he's doing a lot of forced laughing here, seems patronizing, and clearly doesn't have much awareness of Jean's work, especially Loving.

Jean barely speaks about Loving.

Alan asks how he and Genie felt about moving over to Loving. He said they felt no pressure as they knew they wouldn't be to blame if the show was canceled, and he enjoyed spending time with her and Jonathan Frakes.

He talks about the twin story. He says in so many words that the writing was bad, and production couldn't do anything to help. He enjoyed getting to play dual roles, the process.

Alan asks him about Jeremy's death (Alan says Gilbert died - wrong!). Jean laughed and recounted the murder. He said ABC approached him about killing off Jeremy by saying they could just bring the other one (Gilbert) back. He said fine. He knew the show was doomed anyway.

Edited Sunday at 09:32 AM3 days by DRW50

On 1/18/2026 at 4:32 AM, DRW50 said:

Trying to watch some of Jean's interview...I don't try to go out of my way to criticize Locher, but he's doing a lot of forced laughing here, seems patronizing, and clearly doesn't have much awareness of Jean's work, especially Loving.

Jean barely speaks about Loving.

Alan asks how he and Genie felt about moving over to Loving. He said they felt no pressure as they knew they wouldn't be to blame if the show was canceled, and he enjoyed spending time with her and Jonathan Frakes.

He talks about the twin story. He says in so many words that the writing was bad, and production couldn't do anything to help. He enjoyed getting to play dual roles, the process.

Alan asks him about Jeremy's death (Alan says Gilbert died - wrong!). Jean laughed and recounted the murder. He said ABC approached him about killing off Jeremy by saying they could just bring the other one (Gilbert) back. He said fine. He knew the show was doomed anyway.

Thanks for breaking down the interview!!!

Alan was asking people about Jean's work on Loving days before the interview, clear he didn't know much of his work. At times it makes me wish Alan would just produce these shows and let someone with knowledge of guests/shows with interviewing experience take over instead. But I do appreciate that he has managed to gather a lot of soap stars who haven't been in the public eye and give them a platform.

Though I would love to hear from Noelle Beck, Christine Tudor Newman, Chris Marcantel, etc.

8 minutes ago, Forever8 said:

Thanks for breaking down the interview!!!

Alan was asking people about Jean's work on Loving days before the interview, clear he didn't know much of his work. At times it makes me wish Alan would just produce these shows and let someone with knowledge of guests/shows with interviewing experience take over instead. But I do appreciate that he has managed to gather a lot of soap stars who haven't been in the public eye and give them a platform.

Though I would love to hear from Noelle Beck, Christine Tudor Newman, Chris Marcantel, etc.

So do I. I never got to see the Loving reunions so this is the closest I'd get. I'm glad he had Lauren Marie Taylor on, although that was likely just because of the lady from DAYS who was with her.